Re: Command Languages Versus Programming Languages

On 1 Apr 2024 21:13:42 GMT
ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) wrote:

  This stack "management" is "limited" in C:

True enough, although as noted that's an implementation issue as much
as it is a limitation of the language spec. (I'm not sure how you could
handle that in a way that's both robust and reasonably C-ish...)

|Stack overflow even can occur without function calls. For
|example, the program int main(void) { int a[10000000]; }

But I did have to have a chuckle at this reminder of the days when "try
to allocate < 40 MB on the stack" meant "automatic segfault." A lotta
modern developers should've had to cut their teeth in an environment
like that...!